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rub-out
noun
a killing US, 1927- I paid him back a month later by knocking off a punk that tried to set him for a rub-out when he refused to pay off for protection. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 43, 1947
- Had you read about the slaying of a young union leader in New Jersey, a man who was gunned down by a pair of hoods, a rub-out that was clearly tied to the victim’s anti-Hoffa activities? — Sidney Bernard, This Way to the Apocalypse, p. 127, 1963
- “Our friend Bill O. has Reles stuck away in the Tombs for some old rubout.” — Martin Gosch, The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano, p. 245, 1975
- He implied it was a rub-out, an assassination. — Edwin Torres, Q & A, p. 73, 1977
- They could always hold gangland rub-outs there. — Dan Jenkins, Life Its Ownself, p. 17, 1984
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